
Turing machines are well defined mathematical models. Any Turing machine can be computed with just pen and paper. The result is indistinguishable from when a computer chip does it.
Can the process of writing down computations on a paper posses consciousness?












I’m doubtful that the physical world is Turing complete. I don’t see how any series of X86 instructions can produce any form consciousness. That is, unless we accept that the calculation of 1 + 1 = 2 may produce some consciousness. Is everything computable conscious, or is consciousness limited to some computations?